An elderly couple in Whatcom County is without their home after it was washed away in the Nooksack River this week during historic flooding.

The Hutchinsons had lived in their Deming home for 45 years, but feared disaster after a 2021 storm washed away their nearby cabin and the river continued to erode their property.

“The river was pointed this direction, and it kept eating out the bank all the way towards their house,” their son, Barry Hutchinson Jr. explained, highlighting the urgency of the situation on Tuesday after the family’s workshop went into the water.

Barry, his daughter and some neighbors quickly packed up the house.

“I couldn’t think. I just sat down on a tote and just started loading stuff out of the kitchen. I couldn’t talk to anybody, all I could do was just focus an

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